- Reason to Live
Infobox Single
Name = Reason To Live
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Artist = Kiss
from Album =Crazy Nights
Released =1987 (US)
Format = 7"
Recorded = One on One Recording Studios,Canoga Park ,California : 1987
Genre = Hard Rock
Length = 3 min 59 sec
Label = Mercury 870 022-7 (US)
Producer =Ron Nevison
Chart position =- #82 (United States)
- #33 (United Kingdom)
- #89 (Holland)
Reviews =
Last single = "Crazy Crazy Nights " / "No, No, No"
(1987 )
This single = "Reason to Live" / "Thief in the Night"
(1987 )
Next single = "Turn On The Night" / "Hell or High Water"
(1988 )|"Reason to Live" is a song by the American hard rock band Kiss featured on their 1987 album, "
Crazy Nights ". Released as a single in 1987, the song would prove to be a minor hit for the band, only making the Top 40 charts in theUnited Kingdom . [ [http://www.kissfaq.com/charts/scharts.html International Chart History] ] Theb-side is the album track by Gene Simmons, "Thief in the Night".Written by singer/guitarist
Paul Stanley and professional songwriterDesmond Child , the song is a prototypicalpower ballad , heavy in keyboards and production. A video was made to help promote the single, featuring clips of the band playing the song, and a woman (who is implied to have been in a relationship with Stanley) in distress and emotionally unstable and evensuicidal . This is evident as she throws a wine bottle at a picture of her and Stanley, and sets his car on fire after dousing it with gasoline. She is portrayed by Playboy playmate Eloise Broady. The video received aiplay onMTV , and was directed byMarty Callner and produced by Callner, Doug Major, and Bill Brigode. [ [http://www.kissfaq.com/video/concept.html KISS Video Information] ]References
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